Career and Freelance Positions with Progent Jobs for Talented Network Consultants, Desktop Support Technicians, Security Consultants, and Application Programmers
One of America's premiere IT consulting companies for small and midsize business systems, Progent maintains a large team of talented support experts who focus on mainstream IT areas including:
Microsoft Windows products
Cisco Integrated Services Routers, switches, firewalls, plus Voice over IP and VPN solutions
System security consulting
Advanced connectivity infrastructures
Off-site troubleshooting and system administration
Our Experts Group, which includes independent experts certified and managed by Progent, provides highly specialized skills in a wide range of key software areas and networking technologies such as:
Macintosh networking and applications
Consulting for Linux-based, UNIX-powered, and Sun Solaris systems
Manufacturing Resource Planning, Enterprise Resource Planning, or CRM customization
Line-of-business and vertical program help
Chief Information Officer, business analyst, and project logistics services
Custom program design and deployment
Web, electronic business, Electronic Data Interchange, and customer information portal design and integration
DBM management and efficiency consulting
Management information consulting
Telecom architecture support
Creative models for acquiring customers, delivering support, establishing an efficient working environment, and offering generous profit sharing have allowed us to be among the most rapidly expanding and most well recognized Microsoft Gold Partners consultant organizations in the U.S. and to build a worldwide organization for providing remote IT expertise. If you are a certified IT support professional or network consultant with a focus on a client service and strong people skills, consulting professionals will find in Progent a chance for increasing your technical knowledge, developing a more independent career, and achieving economic success.
Find Out Additional Details About Jobs with Progent
Check out these links to learn additional information about Progent's work openings, company culture, work environment, compensation model, and benefits packages:
Consulting Careers at Progent
We are seeking a variety of full-time employees including motivated Microsoft MCSE and MCSA computer consultants; connectivity consultants who have Cisco CCIE, CCNP, or CCNA credentials; and consultants for advanced system architecture with experience in mobile connectivity, wireless networking, non-stop systems, disaster recovery solutions, data preservation, and virtual servers. We are also hiring workstation support technicians, off-site service specialists, and CISM accredited security professionals. We are also hiring experienced managers and administrators able to perform efficiently in our dynamic, virtual office model. Find out additional details concerning full-time consulting jobs at Progent by going to Consulting Positions at Progent.
Freelance Work at Progent
Progent contracts independent professionals who have specialized knowledge and working experience in high-demand IT topics beyond Progent's primary service concentration. Our Experts Group includes contractors who offer consulting and programming services for strategic solutions that include MRP, Enterprise Resource Planning, or CRM; have in-depth knowledge of popular platforms such as Linux derivatives, Macintosh, or Sun, or offer expert skills in technologies such as telecom, web site design, Electronic Data Interchange, eCommerce, or database management. Independent contractors qualified by Progent coordinate with Progent's full-time professionals to deliver comprehensive solutions for small and midsize company networks. To learn additional details about contracting work with our Experts Consulting Group, visit Freelance Work at Progent.
How We Are Exceptional
We have been able to recruit the best professional experts by being unique. With a powerful mix of entrepreneurial spirit, commitment to client success, utilization of state-of-the-art technical tools, and an independent business structure that accommodates life-style choices for Progent's team members, Progent creates a dynamic setting for select consultants who have a drive for rapidly improving their professional abilities to deliver concrete solutions for a range of organizations and network environments. Learn additional details concerning reasons we are unique by referring to How We Are Exceptional.
Our Virtual Office Network
Progent's virtual office model utilizes state-of-the-art technologies that support remote access, wireless communication, easy access to Progent's knowledge bases, and close cooperation with talented colleagues to allow you to resolve challenging IT problems. Progent's virtual office model frees you to focus on delivering IT solutions rather than dealing with traffic and helps consultants nurture lasting customer relationships by permitting you to provide quick, effective, and cost-effective solutions. In order to find out additional details about Progent's virtual office business model, refer to Progent virtual Office Network.
Compensation and Benefit Packages
Our compensation model is determined by revenue sharing. The money you earn is directly tied to what you generate. You have the choice of focusing on quality of life and electing to work at a more relaxed pace, using Progent's flexible schedule to make time for personal pursuits, or you can use the opportunity to earn significant money by hard effort and long consulting time. Progent also provides full family health care coverage plus many additional benefits. Find out additional details about Progent's compensation and benefits by going to Our Compensation Model and Benefit Programs.
Below is a description of our present job openings:
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Operations Administrator Job
Progent is seeking a talented person for the home-office role of Operations Administrator to help the Director of Operations with the daily management of financial information, currently using QuickBooks, in handling A/P and asset management functions for a small, rapidly growing company.
Information Technology Recruitment Manager Position
Progent is looking for a senior administrative executive for recruiting consultants to join Progent's group of computer support specialists who offer information technology outsourcing and engineering consulting services to customers globally.
Market Development Manager Jobs
The Business Development Representative is a top level sales executive responsible for selling Progent's broad range of IT outsourcing and support offerings and functioning as the front-line client interface. The Business Development Representative is a member of the management team, working in sync with the CEO and Directors and Managers to ensure that corporate targets are accomplished and that quality services are delivered to our clients.
Senior Network Consulting Expert, MCSE Jobs
Progent is seeking a proven, Microsoft-certified support professional to become part of Progent's internal group of network professionals. You must have people skills plus IT knowledge and must be solutions driven.
Desktop Support Expert Job
Progent is seeking a Desktop Engineer to work with Progent customers to help all users of workstation and notebook PCs based on Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows Vista, and Windows XP technology. Work closely with customer's management or IT staff or under the direction of a Progent Senior Engineer to help the customer's workers.
Senior Remote Support Expert Job
Progent is seeking a Senior Remote Support Expert to help a variety of Progent's clients to maintain and service information systems on-line, utilizing advanced technology including Microsoft Windows 2000/2003 and Microsoft's .NET platform.
Senior Remote Network Support Expert Job in Australia
Progent is seeking a Senior Remote Network Support Specialist in Australia to help a variety of Progent's worldwide clients to maintain and service computer networks by telephone or remote connections.
Certified Cisco Consultant Positions
Progent is seeking a Senior Cisco Consultant with Cisco CCIE credentials to work with Progent's team of experts to assist customers to design, integrate, maintain, and troubleshoot small business networks that incorporate Cisco products.
Senior Security Consultant Jobs
Progent is looking for a Certified Security Consultant with CISSP or equivalent security credentials to join Progent's team of professionals to offer customers comprehensive security services such as network security analysis, penetration testing, security strategy, remote monitoring, security architecture, access management systems consulting, business processes security, and business continuity planning.
If you would like to enquire about any position listed above, please e-mail your resume to jobs@progent.com. Please copy the code numbers of the positions that interest you.
Details Concerning Jobs at Progent
Staff Work for Network Engineers, Computer Support Specialists, Security Consultants, and Online Help Professionals Progent wants to hire full-time, results-oriented Microsoft accredited engineers with Microsoft MCSE credentials; Cisco accredited system consultants who have Cisco CCIE or CCNP credentials; security professionals who have CISSP or equivalent security certification; and high-end network design experts with experience in mobile solutions, wireless connectivity, high availability, business continuity, data protection, and VMware. Progent also seeks professionals who can work on our staff of helpdesk service specialists and remote troubleshooting experts. Also, Progent is looking for talented managers who can perform productively in Progent's fast-paced, virtual office culture.
By supporting a staff of talented and dedicated professionals, delivering attentive client care, and following a strong value-based pricing model, Progent has been able to increase our client list rapidly while delivering professional services to numerous businesses in the San Francisco area and across the U.S.. A sophisticated virtual office environment, a shared knowledge database, and a team strategy for problem resolution have helped Progent to maintain a skilled consulting team and a loyal client list.
For a network consultant with technical support expertise, joining Progent or working for our clients can enhance your knowledge via interaction with our staff of mutually team-oriented, expert consultants. Our commitment to delivering information technology expertise and technical support to small and midsize organizations will give you the opportunity to collaborate intimately with key players and contribute significantly to the success of exciting companies.
We are looking for technical professionals that can show verifiable credentials in their technical expertise. So, if you are a Microsoft expert, you should have your Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer credential. In the case of Cisco experts, have your CCIE or Cisco Certified Network Professional certificate. For network security, you should have you Certified Information Systems Security Professional, Certified Information Systems Auditor, Certified Information Security Manager, or one of the other leading security certifications. Naturally, Progent is familiar with “paper MCSEs.” Notwithstanding, the fact that a certificate does not guarantee excellence is no excuse for not owning one. If you know your stuff, then the majority of those certifications should present no challenge. The point is that if you represent yourself to be an expert, then customers expect certifications. We can promote your skills, but you should provide basic credentials for us to work with. In case you are adamantly against the idea of certifications, we can sympathize with and honor your position, but you are likely not an appropriate fit.
Contract Work for Certified Experts for Windows, Macintosh, Linux/UNIX, and Sun Solaris Technology For over 20 years, Progent's computer professionals have offered low-cost and successful computer support services for companies in the San Francisco Bay Area and throughout the U.S.. A sophisticated virtual office network, a shared support knowledge base, and a team philosophy for problem solving have enabled us to build a talented in-house team and quickly grow a satisfied customer base.
The Experts Team is our way to offer clients the services of specialized information technology consulting engineers who have in-depth skills and work experience in key areas beyond our primary focus in system infrastructure and security. Experts Team members are often independent engineers and sometimes "moonlighters" who have been thoroughly qualified by Progent to collaborate with our in-house engineers to provide end-to-end, enterprise-class information technology solutions to small and midsize businesses. We are always enhancing the Experts Team in order to address the special needs of our customer base.
Our Experts Team currently offers consulting in these areas:
Macintosh integration and programs
Expertise for Linux-powered, UNIX-based, and Sun environments
MRP, Enterprise Resource Planning, or CRM customization
Mission-critical and vertical application help
CIO, management information analyst, and project management services
Custom applications design and deployment
Web site, electronic business, Electronic Data Interchange, and client information portal development and integration
Database management and performance help
Business intelligence expertise
Telecom systems support
Advantages of being part of Our Experts Team include:
By working with us, you get to leverage the impact of our explosive growth and top-notch reputation in the market. By maintaining a group of skilled and dedicated consultants, offering excellent client support, and following a strong, ROI-oriented billing model, we have multiplied our clientele during the past several years and Progent now delivers professoinal services to hundreds of companies in California and across the United States.
Our experienced marketing team handles all facets of marketing your skills and technical expertise into our quickly expanding client base, so you spend less time finding customers and extra time generating revenue.
We will facilitate communications between you and our key team of expert Microsoft and Cisco qualified consultants who are the conduit to the key executives among our customers.
Our selling and operations groups will take care of the complete selling and engagement cycle, from opportunity identification, job qualification, customer requirements definition, capabilities matching, job analysis proposal writing, agreement negotiation and generation. Your exclusive responsibility is on providing high-level consulting service.
Progent will provide you access to Progent's advanced virtual office infrastructure, including convenient conference sites throughout the San Francisco area, as well as Internet and telecomm access anywhere in the United States.
You will have access to Progent's vast database, best practices processes, library of professional documents, and the aggregate experience from one of Northern California's largest pool of expert consulting professionals.
Progent will share special benefits from top vendors including Microsoft and Cisco, including free ordiscounted educational seminars, on-line access to restricted vendor support utilities and technical support resources, and on-line in-house use programs for training or sales use.
You will have the security of backup coverage from Progent's staff consultants and other Expert Team members in the event you are unavailable to respond to client demands due to work schedule conflicts, vacation, sickness, or training.
As a 1099 subcontractor to Progent, you get simplified, risk-free invoicing and consistent payment schedules. In addition, Progent is responsible for receivables collection
There is not any fee to be a member of our Experts Group, but Progent has the following requirements to join:
You need to have a proven background as a consulting professional operating independently in your field of specialization, including a minimum two year history of completed contracting projects or you must have an active customer base to which you currently provide continuing consulting activity.
You have to demonstrate that you are an expert in your field of specialization, including having an extensive task-relevant record and strong references, and possess current vendor or institutional professional certifications.
You should know how to carry yourself in a professional way and be self driven and assured in your abilities. You should have excellent inter-personal skills and be able to operate efficiently by yourself or as a member of a team.
You need to know how to explain realistic expectations to clients and fellow Progent consultants and you must know how analyze jobs, create project plans, and estimate reasonable work schedules.
Enhance Your Skills with Advanced Technology and Joining a Great Group of Network Engineers Progent's business climate will make you a more capable consulting professional by enhancing your information technology knowledge and increasing the satisfaction of your customers. Progent delivers on this promise by recruiting the top professional talent for you to operate with, offering an advanced system infrastructure, running proprietary application utilities to deliver the maximum level of service, and by streamlining proven business models for finding and maintaining customers.
The main factor that differentiates Progent from most network support firms is the high caliber of our service staff. Among the scores of consultants who have teamed with us, we have recruited top talent covering a wide array of technical areas. Be it Microsoft servers, Cisco firewalls, corporate security, Macintosh, Linux/UNIX, server virtualization, or other crucial areas, we deploy experts who can enable you to be effective on larger jobs by leveraging the aggregate skills of our group of experts.
To ensure the success of Progent's team, we invest significantly in providing the most powerful tools to do the job properly. We will exploit information technology to an impressive degree and our advanced virtual office infrastructure enables seamless communications, cooperation, and information sharing with fellow Progent consultants — entirely from home-based or mobile offices. You don’t waste time or lose revenue because of daily drives to a conventional office building, and any travel you do for in-person client work is determined by your own schedule, not Progent's. The best benefit is that much of Progent's consulting work can be done off-site, representing maximum efficiency for billable time. In fact, some Progent staff do remote consulting exclusively.
Progent's business structure is set up for reacting rapidly and effectively to client needs through information sharing and collaborative problem resolution. Even though our engineers operate with a high level of independence, dispatching is unified, client issues and solutions are carefully tracked, documented, and archived for convenient retrieval, current engineer availability is broadcast to facilitate team projects and simplify trouble escalation, and customer approval is always monitored. We strengthen the feeling of cooperation through monthly team conferences and quarterly company-wide events.
The majority of our team is located throughout Northern California, however Progent is building a quickly expanding team of network experts throughout the United States. Progent's virtual office environment does away with geographic boundaries that restrict the productivity of traditional company models. We complete the package by providing a comprehensive benefit plan to ensure the physical health and financial security of our employees and their families.
Just as we have world-class consulting professionals, Progent's marketing and administration teams match the high standards that is Progent. These top-notch contributors to Progent’s growth are enabling us to target and sign up the 50-60 new clients we are currently engaging every month. We lately celebrated the providing of services to our 1,000th client. Try typing “Cisco consultants” or “Microsoft consultants” into Google to see for yourself why we are also a strong sales operation.
Having a passion for technical proficiency is a key for success with us. A job in consulting will push you to enhance your skills more than you would in any other job in network technology. Being exposed to a continual series of network challenges is what keeps consulting interesting. Customers rely on consulting firms to do the “hard stuff.” Innovative tasks, leading-edge implementations, vexing or chronic problems, and difficult migrations are the basis for our services every day. At Progent, you will not stall or be pigeonholed, as is all too typical for network professionals in ordinary corporate jobs. You will awake every day enthusiastic about the challenges to come.
Along the way, you will meet some wonderful folks, both by establishing strong customer relationships and by operating closely with other Progent team members, where you will benefit from and contribute to their success. Of course, technology is vital, but Progent is a relationship-focused organization through and through. If you don’t offer excellent people skills or like cooperating with a diverse assortment of people, then we are in all likelihood a poor match.
If all this seems good to you, we urge you to contact Progent about our vision of the future of network consulting.
Get Quality of Life Improvements and Technical Prowess with Progent's Advanced Virtual Office Environment Progent is convinced that a carefully designed and implemented network is a pivotal piece for enabling a firm's growth, and Progent applies this philosophy in our own system environment. Progent has created a fault-tolerant virtual office infrastructure that enables our staff consultants and certified contractors to deliver fast and efficient support, collaborate closely on sophisticated projects, and gain from career and private maturity by acting as a member of a dynamic business culture of personal drive and independence.
Progent's expert System Center Data Protection Manager engineers can help your company to create an effective business continuity strategy, implement an affordable non-stop IT infrastructure, deploy a Microsoft Data Protection Manager-based backup and restore solution, thoroughly test your system, educate your IT personnel or local service providers how to manage Microsoft Data Protection Manager, or provide extensive information technology support outsourcing such as remote housing of Microsoft DPM servers in Progent's data center facility.
Progent’s management reporting professionals offer experience in Crystal Reports, FRx, and Microsoft Access reporting software. Progent can also help you set up the server, networking and security foundation needed to support a cutting-edge reporting solution. Progent’s reporting consultants can be particularly useful in assisting you to integrate information from various data repositories including Access, Excel, XML, OLAP, SQL and a wide array of accounting packages and corporate management software.
Progent is a Microsoft Gold Partner with accredited competencies that include Advanced Infrastructure Solutions. Microsoft Gold Certified Partners represent the most successful Microsoft Business Partners who receive the top customer satisfaction and enjoy the closest working relationship with Microsoft. The understanding, skills, and commitment required to achieve the status of Microsoft Gold Certified Partner pays dividends to Progent's customers by allowing Progent to offer your business better technical solutions for your information system.
Progent offers nationwide remote help and consulting services for companies who operate UNIX, Linux, or Solaris environments or whose information systems feature a combination of UNIX/Linux and Microsoft Windows products. Remote IT help provides optimum leverage for your information technology dollar by extending client productivity and shortening the hours billed for network repair services. Sophisticated remote access utilities and skilled technicians and engineers allow Progent to handle most IT issues without squandering time and money by traveling to your location. In the vast majority of situations your network issues can be remediated by telephone or via a combination of phone help and online connectivity. Progent can make available Cisco CCIE network engineers and CISM qualified security professionals to help you with the most challenging system issues.
Progent's UNIX family support services provide small businesses and developers assistance with administering and supporting UNIX, Linux or Solaris systems that coexist with Microsoft-based technology. Progent offers your business access to UNIX experts, support professionals certified by Microsoft and Cisco, and security experts with CISM certification. This wide array of experience offers you a convenient single source to help you build and manage a protected and reliable cross-platform network and communications environment that allows UNIX and Microsoft coexistence by combining Windows with popular variants of UNIX including Apple Mac OS X, Solaris, IBM AIX, HP-UX (Hewlett Packard UNIX), Berkeley UNIX (BSD), SCO and Silicon Graphics IRIX or major Linux platforms including RedHat Linux, SuSE, Debian-GNU and Mandrake.
Nagios and MRTG are useful, license-free monitoring tools that operate on Linux and can be used to analyze UNIX environments, Microsoft Windows systems, or multi-platform environments where Linux and MS Windows run side by side. Nagios lets system support engineers to monitor system services including POP3, HTTP, FTP, and PING. Multi Router Traffic Grapher permits you to graph the bandwidth through SNMP network appliances including servers, routers, and switches. Progent's network integration engineers can assist you to utilize both these programs to streamline and troubleshoot your network.
Microsoft Virtual Server 2005, run on the Windows Server platform and based on software originally produced by Connectix, provides the performance necessary to accomplish hardware reduction, application migration, and server quarantine projects via virtualization technology in an enterprise-class IT network with advanced scalability, manageability, and availability. Microsoft has targeted Virtual Server 2005 at companies who want to improve ROI in software programming and piloting, migration from legacy mission-critical software, and server consolidation. Progent's certified Virtual Server consultants can assist your business to evaluate and integrate MS Virtual Server.
important characteristics of Microsoft Dynamics Great Plains accounting include a modular design that lets you buy only the functionality you require, a standards-based foundation built on Microsoft technologies to protect your investment and provide a highly interconnected environment, advanced reporting services that permit you to monitor all activities, revenues and spending and sales patterns, integration with Microsoft Office to enable access to corporate information, the ability to integrate data from virtually any db software or desktop application into Microsoft GP, and an open architecture that makes it easy to create specialized programs. Progent can show you how to configure and support a reliable, protected server and communications infrastructure to support Microsoft Great Plains, and can offer experienced Great Plains support professionals to show you how to convert the advanced features of Great Plains accounting into a productive business solution.
Progent's network professionals can help you analyze the possible benefits of Hyper-V-powered virtualization for your business, conduct pilot implementations to verify Hyper-V's operation with your line-of-business software, assess your network architecture for optimal operation with virtualization solutions, help you in upgrading to Windows Server 2008 and configuring Hyper-V, train your network management personnel to monitor and administer Hyper-V, offer world-class consulting support for enhancing the security of your virtual servers, design and validate business continuity procedures that optimize network uptime, and provide continuing consulting and maintenance including affordable low-cost online repair and comprehensive Help Desk outsourcing.
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 is a rich, web-aware database and data analysis solution that enables the fast creation of cutting-edge high-end programs that can provide your business a significant competitive edge. Microsoft SQL Server 2000 features core support for XML and the capability to communicate across the Internet and outside the firewall. The experience of Progent's certified SQL Server 2000 consultants, with an average of more than over 10 years of work helping with Microsoft technology, ensures you success in designing, deploying and administering Microsoft SQL Server solutions that are well connected with other applications powered Microsoft's .NET platform.
